Ouch

Well, the tv weather folks were right to get excited this time....we had a whopper for a storm. We prepared last night, on the off chance this wasn't one of their normal ohmygodblizzard exaggerations. We bought new flashlights, hot cocoa makings and popcorn....necessities, you see. And, sometime in the middle of the night, Mother Nature started to dump inch after inch of snow on New England. Continue she would, until about 7pm this evening.

We are both lucky to have jobs that can be managed from home. Arden's school was closed, though we wouldn't have ventured out regardless. So a snow day it was, one that involved alternating conference calls and snow clearing.

I think final count for our neck of the woods is around 20 inches. I spent about 4 quality hours with the snowblower and shovel and managed to get us uncovered. Said activity has left me in agony. At least I burned some calories! Now we just await the morning ... and hope against hope that the plows don't come and plow us back in tonight. If they do, I very well might cry.

A glance at our day...